Conversations: Trouble Every Day.

http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com has an excellent post on the film Trouble Every Day (Claire Denis. 2005) , a conversation between Jason Bellamy and Ed Howard. This is one of the few DVDs I own - most of the others I have I kept because they feature Polaroid use.

For the specific post see: http://www.thehousenextdooronline.com/2009/10/conversations-trouble-every-day.html (30/10/2009).

As I am unable to leave a comment on the site I thought I would leave a few notes below.

I was watching a lot of Asian horror films at the time i rented this (from the local library in Lancaster) and the tempo of Trouble Every Day reminded me of some of these films Tale of Two Sisters (Ji-woon Kim. 2003) for instance - though I think I saw this afterwards. Hidden (2005) by Michael Haneke also springs to mind (for a veritable feast of information on Haneke see the recent post by Catherine Grant: http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/2009/09/michael-haneke-ribbon-of-links.html. 06/10/2009).

While I recommended the film and relayed my impressions of it, I forgot the title. When I finally came across a copy to buy a few years later (the cover is very distinct), many of the things I had relayed to people as having happened were either merely suggested or never happened at all: I had invented whole scenes and narrative strands.

Additionally, I remembered the film as containing little to no soundtrack, when in actual fact it features prominently (orchestrated by Tinderdticks).

For another interesting post on the film see:
http://dir.salon.com/story/ent/movies/review/2002/03/06/trouble/index.html

So when will Jason and Ed have a conversation about Merci la Vie Bertrand Blier (1991)?